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Vision of the Future: Perry Harvey Sr. Park and the Bro Bowl
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HISTORIC 1970s SKATEPARK and TAMPA LANDMARK. Red circle indicates location of the Bro Bowl from a Google Earth image (left) and the city redevelopment plan (right). Graphic is from "The Bro Bowl is a Preservation First in Tampa! A Tampa history and development blog. MORE DETAILED MAP AT BOTTOM OF PAGE . SCROLL TO BOTTOM TO VIEW. TOP OF PAGE: Rendering by architect. Patrick A. Sullivan. On how the Bowl could be aesthetically integrated into the new plans for the park. IMPORTANT NOTES AND FACTS. Bull; As p...
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Hermitage Artist Retreat, Manasota Key | Gator Preservationist
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Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs. Key West’s Eyebrow Houses →. September 19, 2014 · 12:02 pm. Hermitage Artist Retreat, Manasota Key. Source: http:/ www.artistcommunities.org/. Sarasota County, Florida, had grand plans for the Hermitage. And its associated buildings when they bought the property in 1986: they wanted to replace them with a parking lot. In 1941, retired naval engineer Alfred Whitney, by all accounts a jerk, had an elevated house built on the parcel south to the Hermitage. His sel...
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Newport Part 2 | Gator Preservationist
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Newport Part 3 →. July 12, 2009 · 9:07 pm. The agenda on Wednesday, our second day in Newport, was loaded. We started the day at the Hunter House. Another building from Newport’s shipping heyday. Then we moved on to 19th century vacation mansions Isaac Bell House. We also had lunch at The Elms. Carriage house. And then in the evening I went to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Which is housed in the Newport Casino. The interior craftsmanship was high quality, too. The Isaac Bell House - built in 188...
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Key West’s Eyebrow Houses | Gator Preservationist
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Hermitage Artist Retreat, Manasota Key. Florida Keys Memorial, Islamorada →. October 17, 2014 · 12:02 pm. Key West’s Eyebrow Houses. 525 Margaret St. built in 1886. Many a Key West visitor has spotted the disproportioned roof on an eyebrow house and thought, The carpenter must have really screwed up on that one. But Key West’s trademark form of architecture is supposed to look that way. When most of these houses were constructed, sun-shading vegetation was sparse in Key West. There is no natural sour...
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Newport Casino | Gator Preservationist
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Newport’s Cliff Walk. Upper King Street, Charleston →. June 30, 2012 · 12:31 pm. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The Newport Casino is no ordinary sports museum. Designed in the Shingle style–a distinctly American form of architecture that fused Queen Anne, Japanese, and Colonial elements–it was the first collaboration by famed design firm McKim, Mead, and White. Originally a private club. Circa 1902. Courtesy of Library of Congress. The hall of fame in ...
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Six-Year Anniversary | Gator Preservationist
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Octagon House, Washington, D.C. Isaac Bell House, Newport →. May 27, 2015 · 5:39 pm. I debuted this blog six years ago today! Meanwhile, this blog carries on. In the past six years, its 97 posts have been viewed 55,160 times, though about 175 of those hits were me accidentally. This is up from 2,490 hits after the first year, 6,409 after the second, 15,542 after the third, 28,204 times at the four-year mark, and 40,998 views at five years. The most popular post this past year again was Cocoon House.
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Isaac Bell House, Newport | Gator Preservationist
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International Yacht Restoration School →. July 28, 2015 · 8:28 pm. Isaac Bell House, Newport. The Isaac Bell House in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. During the warmer months, hordes of Newport visitors converge on the Marble House and Breakers, a pair of former summer homes turned house museums now owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County. The buildings exemplify the excesses of the Gilded Age with their sublime architecture, sprawling grounds, and sensational ocean views. At best. I...
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Cocoon House | Gator Preservationist
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Sarasota School of Architecture Thesis. Miami Marine Stadium →. January 25, 2011 · 8:52 pm. The sun, clouds, sand, glass-smooth water, row boat, wood deck, cushion, oranges, sandals, and a book. This photo perfectly captures the indoor/outdoor lifestyle espoused by modern residential architects. And, oh yeah, about that building to the right: it’s the Healy Guest House — more commonly known as the Cocoon House — on Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida. Photographer Joseph Steinmetz. State Archives of Flor...
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About | Tampa Changing
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In 2006 the historic Maas Brothers building was demolished to make way for yet another skyscraper in downtown Tampa. However, due to the downturn in the economy, construction of the skyscraper never began. Currently, all that remains where the once majestic Maas Brothers building once stood is a parking lot. Historic photographs courtesy of the Tampa Hillsborough Library. Demolition of the Mass Brothers photograph courtesy of BaronPlourde, via Wikipedia. As you browse the Tampa Changing gallery, you’ll n...
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